Poster for the film Eternity (Wan shi liu fang), China and Manchukuo Film Association (1943)
Japanese-language release poster for the film Eternity (Wan shi liu fang): red title bar, credits, and a photograph of two actresses. The headline says film has bound China, Manchuria and Japan, that a film of peoples who 'swear to overthrow Britain and America' is acclaimed in Shanghai, and that it arrives in Japan soon. The tell: the film is sold as proof of Greater East Asian unity, citing a Shanghai reception that cannot be checked from the poster.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- China Film Company (Zhonghua Dianying) and Manchukuo Film Association (Man'ei), with Japanese backing
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Hideki Tojo
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Empire and colonialism, Media and information
- Event
- Second Sino Japanese War
- Leader
- Hideki Tōjō
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons tags PD-Japan-oldphoto, PD-1996; 1943 Japanese film poster)
Poster for Eternity (Wan shi liu fang), China Film and Manchuria Film, 1943; via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
Original (Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked
中國と滿洲と日本とが映畫によつて結ばれた！打倒英米を誓ふ大東亞國民の映畫が、今上海に熱狂的絶賛を捲き起してゐる 萬世流芳 近日日本到着 中華電影・滿洲映画第一回協同作品
China, Manchuria and Japan have been bound together by film! A film of the Greater East Asian peoples who swear to overthrow Britain and America is now arousing frenzied acclaim in Shanghai. Eternity (Wan shi liu fang) Arriving in Japan soon China Film and Manchuria Film, first joint work
Read from the 500 px rendering. The cast and credits block between the title and the photograph was not transcribed. The title is printed right to left. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.
